Experience

Fisherman

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Product Engineer

  • Oct 2022 - Present

  Responsible for product management and software engineering at Fisherman. Responsible for product management and software engineering at Fisherman.



StrategyHero: Strategy for Startups

• United States
• Financial Services

• Founder

  • Jul 2018 - Oct 2022

  Primary product & engineering leader managing a team of 3 engineers. Responsible for all system architecture and design. Also responsible for UI/UX, user testing, customer interviews, prototyping, and product management. Some projects we've worked on recently include: - Block-based collaborative document editor (similar to Notion) using CRDTs. Technologies used: React, Tiptap, Rails, Hocuspocus, Redis, websockets - Intelligent no-code form generator to ask companies personalized questions. As a company answers more questions our system gets more intelligent, asking more relevant questions over time. We built a no-code platform to allow consultants and our partners to create their own workflows. - Declarative 3rd party integration system that allows us to create new API integrations with a simple YAML file. - Scalable multi-channel notification manager that sends custom notifications to individual users or groups on a user-defined schedule. - Omnibox search using Postgres' full text search capabilities across models. - Bespoke component library to allow us to rapidly build frontend experiences in a 50K+ LOC React project. - Migration of strategyhero.io from Gatsby to Webflow Our tech stack: Rails, React (ES2019), PostgreSQL, Sidekiq, Redis, Hocuspocus, Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, GitlabCI Our design stack: Figma, Invision, Canva, Icons8, Webflow Show less



Fisherman

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• DevOps Engineer/Backend Engineer

  • Sep 2019 - Aug 2022

  1st non-intern engineering hire. Enabled user-driven asynchronous website generation by building Fisherman Automated Site Technology (FAST) backend and corresponding infrastructure. Co-created Fisherman's website generation monorepo. Technologies used: Node.js, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, Gatsby, Amazon SQS Built online ordering system for the #1 restaurant and hospitality POS vendor in the US with 2 other engineers over the span of 10 days. Technologies used: Django, PostgreSQL Conducted extensive AWS security audit to ensure compliance with best practices, including least privilege principles, appropriate VPC configuration and restrictive IAM permissioning. Migrated existing production Django backend from Elastic Beanstalk to EKS. Set up and configured CI/CD pipelines for mission-critical business application. Technologies used: CircleCI Established early engineering management processes, including the use of Agile planning processes and backlogging. Technologies used: Notion, Shortcut Show less



room2learn

• United States
• Design Services

• Interim CTO

  • Mar 2018 - Jun 2018



Cobu

• United States
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Architect

  • Nov 2017 - Mar 2018

• Consultant

  • May 2017 - Nov 2017



Red Hat

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Management

  • 2014 - 2015



Ryan Leaf Research

• Massachusetts, United States

• Principal

  • 2008 - 2014

  Explored several startup concepts in digital wallets, payment security, IoT security, and EdTech. Explored several startup concepts in digital wallets, payment security, IoT security, and EdTech.